Still tide

The sudden appearance of Chen Chao stunned everyone in the room.

The cool air brought in from outside wrapped around Miao Jiayan, and the hand on Miao Jiayan's shoulder was also very cold.Miao Jiayan didn't care about anything else, she just looked back at him.

"Do you think that putting on a look of dislike and disgust can really cut him off from you?" Chen Chao didn't look at Miao Jiayan, ignoring his eyes, and only asked Miao Jiayan on the other side his mother, "You put yourself so 'right', because you are afraid that others will blame you? To say that he has today, so 'abnormal', is all his mother's trick."

Miao Jiayan's parents and sister-in-law all knew Chen Chao, and of course the grandson of the Chen family next door who had gone abroad knew it too, but no matter whether he came here suddenly or what he said now, people couldn't react.

"Don't be so hypocritical, Mrs. Ye. When he was a child, you wore skirts and braided him, and when he got too old, you said he was disgusting." Chen Chao glanced at her coldly, "Who is disgusting?"

Every word he said, he pointed at people's pain points, which are the ones that people most want to cover up and don't want to face.

Miao Jiayan's mother's hands were shaking, and it took a long time before she tried her best to steady her voice and said, "You are really uneducated."

"Upbringing?" Chen Chao said calmly, "At least my mother has taught and raised her."

After saying this, Chen Chao ignored her, took off his backpack, took off his coat and put it on a chair to see his grandma, without saying hello to Miao Jian and sister-in-law.

He picked up the small iron basin on the ground and put it on the bedside table. Miao Jiayan came to take the quilt away, and my sister-in-law stood up to pick it up.The quilt was brought by them from home, and it was not built for the hospital. My sister-in-law took off the quilt and changed it in silence.Miao Yanqi stood helplessly at the corner of the bed, a little scared, all that happened just now was because he hugged his brother.

Miao Jian dragged Miao Jiayan's mother out without saying a word.Chen Guangda had only been here before, and the relationship between the two families was here. Even if they looked at Chen Guangda's face, no matter what Chen Chao said, they couldn't compete with a child.

"Grandma?" Chen Chao stood beside the bed, leaned over slightly, and asked in a gentle voice, "Do you still remember me?"

Grandma Miao opened and closed her lips, as if she was talking silently, her eyes were cloudy and dazed.

"I probably don't remember you today..." Miao Jiayan whispered to Chen Chao while cleaning up the rice porridge on the ground with a tissue, "I don't recognize anyone today."

Chen Chao looked at him, and when the two looked at each other, Miao Jiayan's eyes suddenly turned red.

"Brother Chao..." Miao Jiayan called him in a murmur.

Chen Chao's eyes were red, and he looked extremely haggard.He looked at Miao Jiayan and said "hmm".

Chen Chao's return was beyond everyone's expectations, including Miao Jiayan.

He never mentioned it before, and when Uncle Chen came to the hospital, he didn't say he was coming back.Chen Chao is so busy, how could he have time to come back.

When there were other people in the ward, the two of them just sat next to each other, knee to knee.They chatted about grandma's situation for a while, Chen Chao asked detailed questions, and Miao Jiayan answered them one by one.After that, I didn't speak anymore. The younger sister was there all day, and then the elder aunt and elder sister also came, and the room was full of people.

Miao Jiayan wanted Chen Chao to sleep for a while, and said to him, "Go back and sleep, brother Chao."

"No, it's fine." Chen Chao said.

Miao Jiayan asked, "Does Uncle Chen know you're back?"

"I know." Chen Chao replied, "I told him."

Miao Jiayan nodded, "Ah".

Jet lag is quite uncomfortable, but it's okay for Chen Chao this time.He was so sleep deprived that Chen Chao had been sleeping for more than ten hours before his flight to Seoul, with his blindfold on, and he only woke up twice to eat in the middle.

So even though Chen Chao looks haggard now, he is actually not sleepy, and he has almost made up for it on the plane.

Miao Jiayan wanted him to rest, but Chen Chao didn't leave after mentioning it twice.He has been sitting on the side of the accompanying bed against the wall, and has been there steadily.When grandma needs something, Miao Jiayan will get up and go over, and then come back to sit next to Chen Chao.

The doctor in the middle asked the grandma to go for an examination, and the aunt went to the nurse's station to push the wheelchair. Miao Jiayan helped the grandma up, and Chen Chao said, "I'll do it."

He came over and leaned over to carry Grandma Miao into the wheelchair, and Miao Jiayan covered her with a blanket.

"Just let's go." Miao Jiayan said to her aunt.

To do the checkup, you have to go to the lower floor, and you have to walk a long way after getting out of the elevator. You have to go through the long corridor on the first floor, through the chest pain center and the emergency center, through the abdominal color ultrasound and ECG color, and then from there The elevator goes downstairs.

The first floor was not as warm as the inpatient department. Miao Jiayan tucked up the blanket for grandma, Chen Chao pushed the wheelchair, and Miao Jiayan walked beside him.

When he was about to turn a corner, Chen Chao continued walking without knowing it. Miao Jiayan put his arm up and said, "Brother Chao, this way."

Chen Chao said "um", and pushed grandma to another direction.

Miao Jiayan's hand slid down and hooked Chen Chao's wrist.

His fingers were a little cold, and he didn't wear a coat when he went downstairs, only a thin T-shirt sweater, which was not resistant to the wind.The thick hoodie and jeans that Chen Chao was wearing were a little hot in the ward just now, but they are not cold now.Chen Chao moved his hand, and put Miao Jiayan's hand on the handle of the wheelchair together.

A pair of lovers who haven't seen each other for more than a year, just holding hands now, makes people's heart twitch twice.

"Wear more when going downstairs." Chen Chao said.

Miao Jiayan agreed and said "OK".

When he arrived at the examination room, only one family member could accompany him in. Chen Chao carried Grandma Miao in and put her on the instrument bed, and waited beside her in a radiation protection suit.Grandma Miao took a nap at noon and is quite energetic now.She lay on the instrument bed and looked sideways at Chen Chao.

The doctor inside asked her to straighten her head, and Chen Chao went over to straighten her head.

Grandma Miao looked at him and said "Chen" vaguely.

"Yes, Chen Chao, grandma." Chen Chao smiled and said, "I've been checked, don't move your head."

A tall and big young boy, although thin, he is very strong, and it is easy to hold Grandma Miao back and forth, without any effort.

After she came out, Grandma Miao sat back on the chair again, and Miao Jiayan put a woolen cap on her and covered her with a blanket.

"It's not cold." Grandma said.

"It's windy." Miao Jiayan touched her face with the back of her hand, "Don't blow the wind."

Grandma nodded and smiled softly.

Sometimes she was sober and sometimes confused, and she was obviously more clear in the afternoon than in the morning.

After returning to the ward, he asked Chen Chao, "Where is Fengqin?"

"I'm waiting for you at home," Feng Qin is Grandma Chen's name, Chen Chao said, "I'm waiting for you to steam the steamed buns."

Grandma Miao laughed again.

"Yo, I also know that Aunt Chen's name is Fengqin, and I also know that this is Aunt Chen's grandson." The aunt happily rubbed Grandma Miao's face, "The little old lady really understands now."

Grandma Miao pushed away the aunt's hand rubbing her face with her handy arm, and the aunt smiled and said, "I think I'm annoying."

Chen Guangda came to the hospital directly after leaving the company at night, and said he wanted to have a meal together.

Everyone else has eaten, only the three of them have not eaten.Without going far, I found a similar restaurant near the hospital.

"What's going on with you two at night?" Chen Guangda asked, "Are you going home with me, or how do you arrange it?"

Miao Jiayan looked at Chen Chao, hesitated and said, "I can't go..."

"I won't come back with you." Chen Chao said.

"Go back and rest..." Before Miao Jiayan finished speaking, she was intercepted by Chen Chao's look.

"Then where do you live? Can you open a room in the hotel opposite?" Chen Guangda asked Chen Chao.

"Let's talk about it later." Chen Chao concentrated on eating, and didn't raise his head to say.

It's been almost three years since he went out, and Chen Chao's picky eaters are gone now, and now he can eat any Chinese food.

Miao Jiayan couldn't eat much, so she sat next to him and watched him eat, adding some soup from time to time.

"How long can you stay?" Chen Guangda asked.

"I don't know, it depends on the situation." Chen Chao ate a mouthful of white rice, "I didn't book a ticket."

When Chen Chao was a child, he ate slowly, he was a temperamental little boy in the city.Later, when I went to university, I ran around the scene, and after I went abroad, I squeezed time to eat casually every day, and I didn’t have the gentle temperament back then.

Miao Jiayan raised her hand to straighten the hat on his clothes for him, and tidied up the folded piece.

"Then you can stay here for a while, see if there is anything that can help, and lend a hand." Chen Guangda said to him while drinking tea.

Chen Chao said "hmm".

In front of the two of them, Miao Jiayan didn't say "no" again.At this moment, he suddenly had a sense of belonging. He seemed to be an independent person for so many days. Even though he stayed in the ward with Miao Jian and his two aunts every day, Miao Jiayan had never felt this way before. Feel that someone is "one of us".

Chen Guangda left directly after eating, leaving Miao Jiayan and Chen Chao to walk back.

In the alley, Chen Chao put his hands in his pockets and walked side by side with Miao Jiayan. After walking a few steps, Miao Jiayan reached out to put Chen Chao's arm.Chen Chao let him sit for a while, and Miao Jiayan moved her hand again, reaching into his pocket.

Chen Chao then took out his hand and led Miao Jiayan.

Chen Chao glanced at him, Miao Jiayan held his hand, pressed his palm against him, and looked back at him.

"Brother Chao," Miao Jiayan cleared her throat, and asked, "Can you come back there?"

"Yes, it's fine." Chen Chao said.

They walked hand in hand in the small alley that was not dark. There would be no place with few people near the hospital. Pedestrians came and went, but in the hospital, no one would take a second look at others.

They haven't seen each other for a long time, and they haven't changed much from the last time they saw each other, except that both of them are quite emaciated.

They held hands all the way back and didn't let go until they got out of the elevator.

When I got back to the ward, my aunt was scrubbing Grandma Miao's body. It is best to scrub every day and turn over frequently while lying down like this every day.

Chen Chao stood in the corridor for a while, and he didn't go in until his aunt finished packing and left with her bag.

Miao Jiayan was massaging grandma, and grandma moved her arms cooperatively.

"Does it hurt?" Miao Jiayan asked grandma.

Grandma Miao said "it hurts".

Miao Jiayan smiled: "Why do you hurt, it's a lie."

In fact, Grandma Miao didn't understand what she was asking, and said yes to everything she asked.Miao Jiayan talked to her while massaging, and grandma responded to him in a daze.

Chen Chao went out to make phone calls for half an hour, and when he came back, grandma was already asleep, and Miao Jiayan had made the accompanying bed.

The accompanying bed is so narrow that it cannot fit two people.Miao Jiayan put the pillow on and whispered to Chen Chao, "You sleep here, and I sleep next to grandma."

Usually only one family member is allowed to stay in the ward, but the single ward does not affect others, and the nurse does not care, as long as it is cleaned up before the morning rounds.

Chen Chao didn't say if it was okay, and went to the bathroom to wash up in silence. There was no condition to take a bath here, so Miao Jiayan would go to the hotel opposite to wash her hair and take a shower every other day or two.Miao Jiayan sat by the small bed and brought Chen Chao her own T-shirt. The thick sweater he was wearing was too hot to sleep comfortably.

Chen Chao came out and changed into a new one, and lay down.

Miao Jiayan came out of the wash and changed into a thin T-shirt.He first stood by the hospital bed and looked at grandma, who was soundly asleep.Chen Chao was looking at the phone with his arm under his pillow, and lifted his eyes from the phone to look at Miao Jiayan.

Miao Jiayan pursed her lips, walked over, and sat down beside her.

Chen Chao sent a few more messages, and then plugged in the phone to charge.After doing this he switched to lying on his side.

Miao Jiayan was silent, looked at Chen Chao for a while, and then suddenly leaned over slowly.

Chen Chao opened his arms, and Miao Jiayan lay down, pressing her face against Chen Chao's collarbone.

The accompanying bed was so narrow that both of them were lying on their sides without speaking.

Chen Chao's breath is warm, this position is very familiar to Miao Jiayan.It is the safest and most inclusive space.

Miao Jiayan put one arm around Chen Chao, her eyes rested on Chen Chao's collarbone, her fingers slowly tightened, and she grabbed the clothes on Chen Chao's back.

Chen Chao's chin was on the top of his head, and his hands stroked his back soothingly.